Google’s culture

Google’s culture

Management Questions

TOPIC: GOOGLE

1. Google’s culture is unique in the following ways; its fun since the offices are in cooperation with games; it is flexible because the employees can work how and when they choose. Additionally, their culture is founded solely on trust between employers and employees.
2. Yes, Google will sustain this culture because it is embedded in its vision, mission, and values.
3. Some aspects of the dark side of google entail that the company has acquired so much information about people, places, and activities. If this information was to fall into the wrong hands, many personal data could be breached. Google has attained a monopoly on the internet.
4. Google is training its employees’ mindfulness because they believe that they will help employees understand their colleagues. After all, these programs teach emotional intelligence. Additionally, this program allows the employees to manage stress well and also improves how they focus mentally. However, the dark side of the mindfulness programs is that the employees tend to lose focus on the bigger picture. For instance, you will find that the company’s creativity and innovation level will decrease because the employees fail to speak on important issues or issues that need improvement to avoid upsetting their colleagues.

TOPIC: COOPERATRE ETHICS

1. Advertising to Children can be both a positive and negative thing. Positive in the sense that the child gets to be entertained and educated at the same time. Negative in the sense that since children are still developing and they don’t know what is right from wrong, they will believe everything that the advertisement shows them.
2. Advertising and Public space is an issue that varies from individual to individual. Many companies feel like the best way to be known to put up their posters or billboards in public. This is beneficial to the companies, but some individuals may feel offended by the advertisement’s message, but since it’s in a public place, they have to endure it even if it displeases them.
3. Labor practices where companies pay pennies to workers in developing countries while making vast money are unfair practices. Each employee should be treated with decency. Therefore, if a company is aware that they make a lot of money, they should not exploit cheap labor because they are desperate for cash.

TOPIC: APPLE

1. Steve Jobs transformed the company into the top telecommunications company globally, and he oversaw the launch of products such as the iPhone and the iPad.
2. The success of apple products can be attributed to the company’s sole focus on the user experience. Hence their products are portable and are all accessible for use using the touch screen.
3. Tim Cook can carry on with the legacy of Steve Jobs because, in as much as they have different approaches to running the company, their end goal is similar in the sense that they both wanted to grow the company by improving their innovation, satisfying their customers and remaining relevant in the telecommunications world.
4. Steve is unique because he was charismatic, creative, not afraid of failure, and a very distinct leader, and this set him aside from other innovators. This resulted in the success of the Apple company.

TOPIC: JAZZ AT WORK

1. Jazz at work approaches to team-building. After all, if you look at jazz ensembles, they became known and famous because they always highlight their members’ unique strengths and never discriminate against each member’s traits; hence, they can work as a team to produce exceptional music. Therefore, if this approach is applied at work, the employees would always be encouraged to work together and never make a colleague feel left out. Additionally, a jazz environment allows the employee to express themselves.
2. The jazz metaphor could be useful to teams because it involves working together. When people are allowed to work together, the level of creativity becomes boosted, and as a result, the group becomes more innovative. This also embeds trust in team members and ensures that each team member will perform their duties without being forced.
3. This approach can also be applied when members must work together for a specific task to complete fully. For example, surgery processes. This means that is one member fails to cooperate, and it would lead to unwanted results, just like in jazz music, where if one member is off-key, then the whole set if off-key.